Word: loftin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perfect Crime. In Electra, Texas, while P. H. Loftin was standing on a street corner someone stole his hat off his head...
Pittsburgh's first prize ($1,000) went to an artist who had never had an exhibition, 41-year-old, Denver-born Tom Loftin Johnson. His prize-winning American Pietà, which was once refused by Manhattan's National Academy show, was a skillfully drawn, mural-like scene showing Negroes bearing home the corpse of a lynched relative. No one was more surprised at the $1,000 it earned than Painter Johnson himself. Said he: "I don't know quite how it happened. The money came in very good because I have...
...Cummins Prison Farm in southeast Arkansas-was three miles away. Here were pea fields where the convicts had been working all morning. They were a tough crew, murderers, robbers, rapists, kidnappers-men like Frank Conley, who at 34 had a 21-year sentence for robbery and kidnapping; like Percy Loftin, who at 25 faced life plus 52 additional years for murder, robbery and kidnapping. Their guards were tough, some of them trusties-Arkansas law permits trusties to be armed as guards. There was a new one -Claude Martin, who murdered his wife last year-sitting down, holding his shotgun...
...jumped Guard Wade, slashed with his knife, wounded him. The new guard, Claude Martin, still sitting down, raised his gun. He never got up. Before he could fire, Conley had grabbed Wade's shotgun, blazed away at Martin with both barrels. Martin fell forward. Conley's partner, Loftin, who had already disarmed the guards at his end of the line, fired another slug into the prone body. Martin rolled over, dead. Conley looked around, saw another guard drawing a bead on him. He raised his shotgun, snapped both empty barrels, just as the guard was overpowered and disarmed...
...lined up the convicts and the disarmed guards, two abreast, drove them at a run four miles into the woods, the leaders riding horseback. In a thicket they stopped, conferred on the direction of flight, took the convicts' tobacco, turned them loose. Conley with five others headed south. Loftin moved west. Through the afternoon 104 convicts and guards straggled back to the prison...